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title: A beautiful little white butterfly fluttered above her, and at last… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A beautiful little white butterfly fluttered above her, and at last settled on the leaf. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 108

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A beautiful little white butterfly fluttered above her, and at last settled on the leaf.

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**What happens:** flutter, settle · **To what, where:** beautiful little white butterfly, last

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:47:108
# text = A beautiful little white butterfly fluttered above her, and at last settled on the leaf.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	fluttered	flutter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	above	above	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
13	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flutter** | participle |  | a beautiful little white butterfly *not said here* |  |  |  | above leaf | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above she=Location |
| 2 | **settle** | participle |  |  |  | last |  | on the leaf | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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